[Lizard_King]

Thanks. I couldn't believe someone had the nerve to defend the French by slandering the Norwegians, Danes, Greeks, and Czechs.

GOP, I don't think anyone means any personal disrespect to particular French soldiers in history. But the fact is that France as a nation continues to ignore the precedents set by its own defeats and near-misses, and behave in a manner better suited to a child than an alleged world power.

Besides, I will never forgive the French, for one reason alone that erases all the good that may have come from them: The French Revolution was the crucible that made possible the ensuing centuries of Leftist discord, and will no doubt be traceable as the proverbial beginning of the end someday.

[altayann]

The French Revolution was the crucible that made possible the ensuing centuries of Leftist discord

A revolution that was based largely on the American revolution, as I recall. You know, liberty and all that stuff.